Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), often affectionately called "Gabo," was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He is universally regarded as one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly within the Spanish language. He was a central figure in the literary movement known as the Latin American Boom.

García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts." His signature style is magical realism, a narrative approach that integrates fantastic or mythological elements into an otherwise realistic setting. His masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, established his international fame, but Love in the Time of Cholera is equally celebrated for its epic romantic scope and emotional power.